this thread with a reasonably liberal sprinkling of . . . midwives and maternity ward nurses should have a special *what were you thinking* stamp for the foreheads of the parents of some of these poor kids . . . my cousin, love him as I do is, guilty of the bogan name curse despite being a reasonable, rational fabbity individual in every other respect ~ Hunter, Tyler and Harley . . and yes, after the bike

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Originally Posted by kafrun

Unique is good, but there's a fine line.

Then there's all the cutsie names that drive me bonkers. Mackenzie, Mykayla, Skylar, which are just trendy now. Ugh. Don't parents understand that their adorable tots are going to grow up one day and need big-people names? I saw an example just the other day. A woman named Sparrow. Why?

this works in the reverse too . . . a colleague recently had a baby boy and named him Bruce . . . how do you look at a sweet little bundle of beautiful scrawly boyness and call him Bruce . . . and I do send my apologies to any Bruce's out there . . . clearly it is a name you need to grow into.

I have only ever met one other *me* . . . she was a scottish girl I met in an Irish pub I worked in in north London and I hated my name with a passion growing up ~ desperately wanted to be a Jane or Christine or something normal, but now I appreciate it even though it can be a little tiresome having to repeat spelling or pronounciations

__________________'You might just as well say, that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'

Having a common name blows, my name is Michael/Mike which as you all know was the #1 name for like 4 decades straight. Being in public, you hear your name all the time, and you know the person isn't talking to you, but you turn around anyway... or you finally grow into that and stop turning around, and then it actually is someone calling to you! I can't even go by my middle name since that is Joseph, and almost as common. And initials don't work in this case since that would make people think of say Michael Jordan, or Michael Jackson, or Mary Jane Watson .